Canuxxx
Registered User
- Aug 10, 2008
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Hey guys, long time creeper on the boards and very infrequent poster here.
After this summer, like most of you, I was prepared for a decade of despair after some of the horrendous moves made by Mr. Benning. In hindsight, some of those moves don't look as terrible as they did at the time (see Kassian-Prust), but you get the idea. It seemed as though we should be entering a full blown rebuild and blow everything up, yet we were hanging onto the idea of remanning competitive while the Sedins are still around. Essentially, we didn't have an identity. We were a team that didn't seem as though we'd be cup competitive for quite some time, yet we were hanging on to the notion of competing for the playoffs. We had one foot in the water. I was prepared to watch a team that would be semi competitive until the Sedins retired at which point the Titanic would sink and we could finally begin the rebuild.
However, it seems that with the success we had in the 2014 draft, all that has changed. Virtanen at #6 and Mccann at #24. These two kids along with Horvat will likely be our 3 best forwards once the Sedins are gone. I don't think its a stretch at all to suggest that all 3 of these guys are future all stars. Then we get to #36 where we got our goalie of the future in Thatcher Demko. I know things can change at the flick of a switch with goalie prospects, but its hard to not get excited with the current run he's on.
Anywaysss, call me a glass half full kind of guy! Flame away.
After this summer, like most of you, I was prepared for a decade of despair after some of the horrendous moves made by Mr. Benning. In hindsight, some of those moves don't look as terrible as they did at the time (see Kassian-Prust), but you get the idea. It seemed as though we should be entering a full blown rebuild and blow everything up, yet we were hanging onto the idea of remanning competitive while the Sedins are still around. Essentially, we didn't have an identity. We were a team that didn't seem as though we'd be cup competitive for quite some time, yet we were hanging on to the notion of competing for the playoffs. We had one foot in the water. I was prepared to watch a team that would be semi competitive until the Sedins retired at which point the Titanic would sink and we could finally begin the rebuild.
However, it seems that with the success we had in the 2014 draft, all that has changed. Virtanen at #6 and Mccann at #24. These two kids along with Horvat will likely be our 3 best forwards once the Sedins are gone. I don't think its a stretch at all to suggest that all 3 of these guys are future all stars. Then we get to #36 where we got our goalie of the future in Thatcher Demko. I know things can change at the flick of a switch with goalie prospects, but its hard to not get excited with the current run he's on.
Anywaysss, call me a glass half full kind of guy! Flame away.
